The strike by RMT and ASLEF on 15 March would have made it difficult for members to get to the venue for the AGM, The meeting will now be held by Zoom.
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Listening with Sibelius – a talk by George Parris, Artistic Director of the Carice Singers at 14.30
Since graduating from the Sibelius Academy in 2020, George Parris has remained a semi-permanent resident of Helsinki where he works as a freelance choral conductor, singer, and artistic director. In the UK he has promoted the performance of choral music from the Nordic region, giving talks and through performances with his own group, The Carice Singers.
In his talk he invites us to listen with Sibelius and in doing so consider elements of the Finnish landscape, human imagination and phenomenology together with properties of soun, complemented by musical examples and reference to other genres.
Details of the venue have already been proviided to members of the Society. Anyone who is not a member but who would like to attend should contact the Hon. Secretary for further details using the contact form on this website.
Talk by Dr Jaakko Nousiainen, Director of the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland
Jaakko Nousiainen has been with the Finnish Institute in London for six years and took over as Director in 2021. He will talk to us about the Institute’s recent and forthcoming projects.
Booking to attend this event has already closed
Finntopia -What we can learn from the world’s happiest country
Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. In 2017 he gave a lecture in Cambridge at “Imagine 2027” a series of 15 public talks on different aspects of inequality and strategies to create a more equal society within 10 years. There he met one of the volunteers, Annika Koljonen, who was studying Politics and International Relations. They began to collaborate and within two years Finntopia had been written and it was published in 2020.
Professor Dorling will talk generally about the book and bring it up to date referencing the increasing confidence of Finnish politicians when addressing a European audience and he will also say something about his perception of certain hidden inequalities in Finnish Society.
Time and Venue: 6.30 for 7.00pm at the Guildhall, City of London. As capacity is limited, priority will be given to subscribing members of the Society, For further information, please contact the Hon. Secretary using the contact form on this website.
Wood: the Material of the Future – a talk by Tapani Pahkasalo of Dasos Capital
Wood: The Material of the Future. A talk by Tapani Pahkasalo, Dasos Capital, Helsinki at 17.00 on Thursday 10 March 2022
As global efforts increase to find ways that mankind can develop sustainably, there has been growing appreciation of the stunning diversity of the ecosystem services provided by forests and of their crucial contribution to building circular economies, where natural resources are reused or recycled and waste is eliminated.
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Future building: Katajanokanlaituri This talk will headline the benefits we get from forests and will examine why wood is the material of the future. The talk will look at the amazing versatility of wood and wood fibre and new applications. This will include trends in the use of mass timber in building design, such as high-rise residential and large public and commercial structures.
The talk will be delivered over Zoom from Helsinki with mostly pictorial slides and video clips.
Tapani Pahkasalo The speaker, Tapani Pahkasalo, is a partner in Dasos Capital. Based in Helsinki, Dasos is an advisor to and manager of funds invested in sustainable forests and other natural capital, mostly situated in Europe. The investors include major European pension and endowment funds and affluent families. Assets under management total over EUR 1.3 billion, making Dasos the largest manager of private equity investments in forests in Europe. In a new venture, Dasos recently joined forces with the Cromwell Property Group (a global real estate developer) to set up a pan-European, wooden construction property fund.
For more information, contact Clive Suckling csuckling@virginmedia.com
To attend this event participants must register through Eventbrite. We will then send them the Zoom link Wood: the Material of the Future – Zoom talk from Dasos Capital, Helsinki Tickets, Thu 10 Mar 2022 at 17:00 | Eventbrite
Klaus Mäkelä conducts London Philharmonic Orchestra – From Russia with Love
Klaus Mäkelä will conduct two popular Russian works, Prokofiev’s Violin Cocerto No 2 (soloist Daniel Lozakovich) and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No 2. Royal Festival Hall at 19.30
Klaus Mäkelä conducts London Philharmonic Orchestra – Escape Velocity
In this concert entitled Escape Velocity, Klaus Mäkelä will conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme which includes John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine, the world premiere of the Piano Concerto by Jimmy Lopez, Kaija Saariaho’s Asteroid 4179:Toutatis and Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra. Royal Festival Hall at 19.30
Special General Meeting
This is a Special General Meeting to consider proposed changes to the Society’s Rules. The meeting will be held on Zoom at 18.00 on 15 February. Only subscribing members of the Society are entitled to vote
Covid-19
Events scheduled from March to May 2020 had to be cancelled due to restrictions imposed to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. We hope to be able to arrange some meetings by Zoom in the coming months. Details will be sent to members and will be posted here as soon as possible
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra
The concert includes Mahler’s Humoresken (Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn – soprano Lise Davidsen) and Schumann’s Symphony No 3, the Rhenish. Royal Festival Hall at 19.30
